RALLIER

RALLIER is where a car club lives between drives.

One app for your group's chats, the spots worth stopping at, the events you run, the drives you take together, and the people you meet along the way. Every club is listed in Explore and anyone can ask to join, but day to day you see only the groups you belong to.

TODAY
Open the app to what needs you: unread chats across every group, tagged by group, your events, and, when you're working a live event, the ticket scanner one tap away.

GROUP CHATS
Real-time chat for each club, with threads, reactions, photo and video attachments, editing, in-chat search, and per-channel mute. Push notifications when you want them, silence when you don't.

MESSAGES
One direct-message inbox across every group. Message anyone you share a club with and share a spot straight into the conversation.

SPOTS
Post the car you found, the road you took, the shop that did it right. Photos with a location, comments, and a feed from people and clubs you follow. Explore puts every spot on a map, near you or near where you're headed.

EVENTS
Club events with details, attendee lists, and tickets. Gate staff scan tickets from the app, so the line moves. Add your membership card to Google Wallet where your club supports it.

POSTS AND JOURNALS
Longer writing, kept with its club: member discussions and announcements in one feed, and build journals for documenting a project over months.

EXPLORE
Directories for clubs and the businesses that serve them (shops, detailers, tracks, event spaces), plus the map. Find a club near you and request to join.

DRIVER MODE
Cruise to an event, a spot, or a route your club drew on the website, with spoken turn-by-turn on a map built for a mounted phone. The road ahead shows road alerts and roadworks, weather radar, traffic cameras you can open live, speed cameras, aircraft overhead, and fuel and charging stops on or beside the route.

CONVOYS
Drive together and see each other on the way. Start a convoy for an event or a cruise, share the invite code, and the lead approves who joins. Everyone sees everyone on the map, talks in the convoy's own chat, and gets a nudge when the group spreads out. Position sharing runs only while the convoy does and never shows the area around your home.

RALLIER MESH
Add the optional RALLIER Mesh Node (separate hardware, a LoRa radio for your vehicle) and your convoy keeps talking when the cell signal doesn't. Pair it over Bluetooth by scanning the QR code on the node. Chat, alerts and positions pass between the convoy's nodes over an encrypted radio channel, and reach the server as soon as any member has signal. Nothing changes without a node.

ROAM AND PASSPORT
Drive with no destination and your passport fills in with the regions you've been through and the miles between them. Drop a pin on a road worth coming back to; pins are yours alone. Nobody can see a roaming driver, and no route is ever kept, only which places you have been.

GARAGE
Add the cars you drive. Each carries its build journals, marks you on the convoy map, and shows on your profile.

BUILT FOR THE CLUB, NOT THE CROWD
RALLIER is not an open social network. There is no public feed of strangers; a club's chats and members are visible only once its admins approve you. Every group controls its own membership, admins, and moderation. Report anything from a long press, block anyone from anywhere in the app, and reports are reviewed within 24 hours.

REPLACING RALLIER CHAT AND RALLIER SPOT
If you use either, this is where they've gone. Sign in with the same RALLIER account and your groups, chats, spots, and events are already here. You can uninstall the old apps.

RALLIER requires an account and membership in at least one club. Location, camera, photo, and Bluetooth access are each optional and asked for only when you use the feature that needs them. A convoy shares your live position with its members through an ongoing notification you can stop at any time; roaming shares it with no one.

Recent changes:
New: RALLIER Mesh. Pair the optional RALLIER Mesh Node over Bluetooth and your convoy's chat, alerts and positions keep flowing over LoRa radio when there is no cell signal. You can update the node's firmware from the app.

Also new: convoy alerts sound a horn and say who and what, share your profile with a QR code or link, and answer crew invitations from Activity.

Everything else works as before, with or without a node.